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Storing & Retrieving double.NaN causes NullReferenceException (Sqlite) #5011

@teo78

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@teo78

I'm testing EFCore RC1 using Sqlite, and encountered a problem when storing/retrieving double.NaN values.

I use TPH inheritance and when storing a double.NaN Sqlite stores this a Null value (see: http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/tktview?name=2b823bfe08). Then when loading that row EF Throws a NullReferenceException.

Could this be fixed in EFCore somehow so that Null values would be read in as double.NaN?
If not the only option as I see is to make sure that NaN is never stored which would be nasty solution.

Here is a minimal repro example:

class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            using (var db = new NumberContext())
            {
                db.Database.EnsureDeleted();
                db.Database.EnsureCreated();
                var number = new DoubleNumber() { Value = double.NaN };
                db.DoubleNumbers.Add(number);
                db.SaveChanges();
            }
            using (var db = new NumberContext())
            {
                // Throws NullReference exception on the following line due to NaN double value stored as Null in Sqlite
                var list = db.DoubleNumbers.ToList();
            }
        }
    }
    public class BaseNumber
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
    }
    public class DoubleNumber : BaseNumber
    {
        public double Value { get; set; }
    }
    public class NumberContext : DbContext
    {
        public DbSet<BaseNumber> BaseNumbers { get; set; }
        public DbSet<DoubleNumber> DoubleNumbers { get; set; }
        protected override void OnConfiguring(DbContextOptionsBuilder optionsBuilder)
        {
            optionsBuilder.UseSqlite($"Filename=Test.db");
        }
    }

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